Buy the record twice.

The best part of the record lasted fifteen seconds.

Musicians called it the break and treated it as furniture — the stretch where the horns drop out and the drums carry alone. The dancers thought it was the whole record. You can't make a break longer and there isn't a longer one to find, which leaves exactly one honest solution, and it costs the price of a second copy.

Know the history, link to the free Vault article: The Break: Where Hip-Hop Began

THE DETAILS

• TWO COPIES centre chest, stacked two lines, charcoal tonal print, single weight, all caps
• Diagonal stroke through the lockup — one pass, cutting from the phrase down and out
• INFINITE BREAK set along the stroke, small, roughly 0.2" cap height
• Back yoke: BX Originals mark in charcoal
• Back imprint: ONE RECORD / TWO DECKS / NO END, staggered, charcoal
• QR code on left sleeve with THE VAULT handstyle above, light ink

MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION

• 100% combed ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 4.3 oz/yd² (145.8 g/m²)
• Set-in sleeves, side-seamed, ribbed collar with shoulder-to-shoulder taping, double-needle hems
• Regular fit
• Pre-shrunk
  
  

SIZE SPECIFICATIONS

All measurements in inches. Width is measured flat across the chest.

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

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BX ORIGINALS — TRUE TO THE CULTURE
Hip-hop has four elements: DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti. Each product in our collections carries one, set in that element's own lettering tradition. Not four versions of one graphic — four distinct hands held together by one system.

THE BX VAULT
Every BX Originals piece connects to the BX Vault — our library of long-form writing on hip-hop history and practice. Not marketing copy. Real research on the people, places, and decisions that built this culture. The culture on the product. The context behind it.

FROM THE BRONX
BX Originals documents hip-hop's four elements from where they started. We're not a fashion brand borrowing an aesthetic. We're building an archive that happens to make things you can wear.

BX Originals. True to the culture.